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Former ICC official says Israel will be convicted of war crimes. The settlements constitute a clear legal violation of the Rome Statute and the rules of international law, which prohibit an occupying power from transferring its civilian population to an occupied territory. Source 1j.

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Israel plans most squatter homes since 1992: minister. Defence minister says first half of 2017 has seen most illegal expansion since before "Oslo peace process" began. Source 4v.

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This area has seen so much strife. I hope one day they can all learn to live together in peace. But knowing what I do about the mindset of many of the Arabs that surround Israel I fear this will not in happen in generations. It would take an extraordinary event to change things there.

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U.S. State Department says Israeli settlements, 'lack of hope' drive Palestinian resistance. Source 7u.

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Yes, hopelessness in one's future and tough living conditions is something that can forge a normal person into a soldier and a rabble into an army. Here is the think though, the Arabs have made it pretty tough for Israel to act other than they are acting. Why should Israel trust the very groups that have called for her extinction, denied the Holocaust even happened, and sworn to eradicate the very Jewish faith? Remember, at it's narrowest point Israel would only be about nine miles across if it gave up the West Bank. That is tough to defend when you are surrounded by a billion people bent on your destruction.

This is what makes it such an intractable problem. None of the key players trust each other. They were tantalizingly close to reaching an agreement in 2000 when President Clinton took Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to camp David for two weeks. The Palestinians would have received 86% of the land they wanted. They refused, claiming they already gave up 100% of Palestine. All the land was centered on claims in the West Bank. Had Arafat had the guts to accept, none of this would be happening and Palestine would be an independent country… albeit slightly smaller than what they wanted.

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UN lists 206 companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in West Bank:
The United Nations said it has identified 206 companies doing business linked to illegal, Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where violations against Palestinians are "Pervasive and devastating". Source 4u.

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Well now, that's very interesting, since two of those words show the bias for which it was written.
'Illegal' - meaning against the laws of war. The typical way they refer to the 'illegal settlements' is that Israel seized them in the war of 1967, when they drove back the Jordanian forces and into Jordan, taking back the lands that Jordan seized in 1948. If it wasn't illegal in 1948 when Jordan invaded and drove OUT all the Jews, destroying every synagogue, and stealing the owner's homes, why is it suddenly illegal in 1967 when Israel recaptured the territory and DIDN'T drive out the Arab homeowners? Israel offered citizenship to all those who stayed when Jordan was repulsed, but most refused.
'Occupied' - meaning controlled by Israel as a military force controls a population. Israel negotiated with the people left behind in 1967, coming to an agreement about how the area was to be governed, with some areas under Israel's control, some areas under Arab control, and some areas mixed government. They did this because they wanted peaceful coexistence in the area they had just recaptured, and were will to work to achieve this, even though the Arab population left behind did not want to be citizens of Israel. What other government would even TRY to coexist in this fashion? All the Arab countries around Israel made a point of driving out the Jews from their countries before and after the countries inception in 1948, throwing them out and taking all the hard-earned lands, businesses and valuables from over a million Jews. My father in law was a young boy at the time it happened to his family, and he tells of how every single guard and solider they encountered would demand payment to let them continue to leave, otherwise they'd be kept in a cell, even though the government demanded they leave! Barbarians, corrupt and thieves, they stripped the Jews that had for decades lived peacefully with their neighbours, leaving with next to nothing to survive. Compare that to what the Jews did to the people in the lands they recaptured, and tell me how this can even slightly be considered 'illegal' or 'occupation'. Israel allows Gaza and the area of Judea/Sameria to have their own government, their own armed forces, almost like a country within a country, and have provided plenty of infrastructure for them to develop into a first world country. Their 'leaders' have chosen to instead take the world aid for their own bank accounts and use some of it to promote the myth that they are 'oppressed' and imprisoned. The purpose and people of the UN have lost their way.
Meanwhile, Russia and other forces are murdering thousands of civilians in Syria, and the UN remains utterly silent.

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Comments: If we use the history of who was there first and who won the land isn't it true that the Palestinians were there first and the Jews are only now there because of the UK's action after world war two?